May 26 (UPI) — At least a dozen people were injured by turbulence while traveling to Dublin, Ireland, on Sunday in the latest such incident on international flights. Of the 12 people injured on Qatar Airways flight QR017, six were passengers and six were crew members, the Dublin Airport said in a statement. The plane […]
Emergency services attended to 12 injured from turbulence on a Doha-Dublin flight. The Qatar Airways plane met turbulence over Turkey, injuring passengers and crew. This follows a deadly turbulence incident on a London-Singapore flight earlier this week. Emergency services are attending to 12 people who were injured due to turbulence on a flight from Doha […]
Singapore Airlines has said it will halt meal services and get all cabin crew to buckle up when planes fly through turbulence as part of tighter cabin measures after one person died and dozens were injured on a flight from London this week. The airline said it has adopted a “more cautious approach to managing […]
STORY: Singapore Airlines has altered at least one flight route and tweaked its in-flight seatbelt sign policies. It comes after a turbulence incident on a flight this week killed one person and left dozens hospitalized. The airline said it is adopting a more cautious approach to turbulence, like not serving hot drinks or meals when […]
Passengers on board a Singapore Airlines flight that hit “severe turbulence” have described their terror as the plane dropped hundreds of feet before it leveled off and made an emergency landing in Bangkok. “I saw people from across the aisle just going completely horizontal, hitting the ceiling and landing back down in really awkward positions,” […]
A British man who died when a flight to Singapore was hit by severe turbulence was “the most wonderful human being that you could ever know”, a friend has said. Geoff Kitchen (73) suffered a suspected heart attack on the Singapore Airlines flight from London Heathrow, and seven other people were seriously hurt. Dozens more […]
A months-old video of passengers screaming as their flight to Mallorca rattles and lurches has resurfaced in posts falsely linking it to a terrifying high-altitude plunge on a Singapore-bound flight. One man died and more than 80 were injured when their plane hit sudden turbulence on May 21, 2024. However, the video falsely shared online was […]
[Source] A Singapore Airlines passenger has died and 71 others were injured after the plane encountered extreme turbulence during a flight from London to Singapore on Tuesday. Key points: Boeing 777-300ER, carrying 211 passengers and 18 crew members, was about 10 hours into the flight to Singapore when turbulence occurred over Myanmar, leaving a 73-year-old […]
Tributes have been paid to a 73-year-old British man who died after severe turbulence on a Singapore Airlines flight from Heathrow Airport. The passenger, named as Geoff Kitchen, suffered a suspected heart attack on the flight, according to a spokesman for Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport, where the plane was diverted to. The spokesman added that seven […]
What to know about severe turbulence injuries on flights. (Photo Illustration: Alex Cochran for Yahoo News; photos: Getty Images) One passenger was killed and at least another 30 were injured following severe turbulence on a May 20 flight from London to Singapore. The plane’s operator, Singapore Airlines, told the New York Times that 18 passengers […]
STORY: A 73 year-old British man was killed and injured passengers were stretched off a Singapore Airlines flight from London on Tuesday (May 21), after the plane fell into an air pocket before encountering turbulence, the airline and officials said. Forced to make an emergency landing in Bangkok, dozens were taken to hospital including one […]
One person has died and at least 71 others were injured on board a Singapore Airlines plane that encountered severe turbulence on a flight from London to Singapore. The Boeing 777-300ER plane diverted to Bangkok, according to a post on the Singapore Airlines Facebook page. It said 211 passengers and 18 crew were on board. The […]